“Suppose that God wishes to fill you with honey; but if you are full of vinegar, where will you put the honey?” – St. Augustine
Today is All Souls’ Day. All the brothers and priests will go to a nearby cemetery and pray for those who have gone before us. We are conscious that at the end of their lives some vinegar may still remain; further purification is still needed. Catholics call this “Purgatory.”
Today say a prayer for your loved ones who have gone before you.
About Fr Simon Devereux LC
FR SIMON was born on February 4, 1979, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the seventh son of Marie and Michael Devereux. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, on September 15, 1997. After his novitiate and year of humanities in Cheshire, he studied a bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2000 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007, a licentiate in Philosophy. In between, he worked as a youth minister in Quebec, Canada, and he made his perpetual profession in Rome on October 4, 2005. In 2010 he completed a three-year bachelor’s degree in Theology and was ordained on Christmas Eve of the same year with 60 of his brother Legionaries by Card. Velasio di Paolis. Two of his brothers are also Legionary priests. Fr Simon is now based at the Legion of Christ seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut.
“Suppose that God wishes to fill you with honey; but if you are full of vinegar, where will you put the honey?” – St. Augustine